Opportunists and Organized Perpetrators
Suspects involved in identity crime generally fall within two categories.
- Opportunists are persons who do not have identity theft and subsequent crime as their primary target. They see identity crime as a way to solve an immediate problem and use the personal information, credit cards, checks, and other material to commit the crime and then sell the information to organized groups.
- Organized groups seek out targets and are highly committed to identity crime. They include street gangs, narcotics traffickers, fraud rings, terrorists, and cyber criminals.
